[nycbug-talk] Connecting a MacOS X client to an isakmpd VPN server...

Brian McGonigle brian.mcgonigle at gmail.com
Thu May 3 15:58:00 EDT 2007


On May 3, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Andy Michaels wrote:

> On Thu, 3 May 2007, Miles Nordin wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "bas" == Brian A Seklecki <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org>  
>>>>>>> writes:
>>
>>   bas> Right now (as in, I stopped to reply to this), I'm having
>>   bas> moderate success using racoon(8) 0.7x with Cisco VPN Client
>>   bas> 4.x.
>>
>> how about NAT traversal?  and on which BSD?
>>
>> and is it a good idea to buy Cisco's VPN client for Mac OS X, or is
>> there something better-integrated that comes with Mac OS X?
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply, Brian, I have similar questions and some
> clarification.  I'm trying to use non-commercial software, so my ideal
> setup would be:
>
> VPN server| <--IPSEC--> | Mac using built-in Apple VPN client
>
> on the VPN server side, I'd heard that isakmp was the simplest wrt  
> setup
> effort.  I'm willing to look at freeswan or racoon.  I've heard  
> freeswan
> is no fun.
>
> -Andy
> _______________________________________________

Check this out. Complete intructions for VPN Server/Mac Client.
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan- 
macosx.html#Configuration_Linux




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